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Torres: ChatGPT excels when replicating examples rather than following rules

Romain Torres · My Agent Army Brings Me $500,000 Per Month (Exploding SaaS) · Jul 8, 2025 · at 21:59

Romain Torres, founder of Arcads, explains his heuristic for prompting LLMs to generate marketing copy to Nathan Latka.

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“My understanding of like where chat GPT really excels is not when you give them like tips on like, this is how you write a good hook. And this is how you write a good body, but it's more like do this, but in this different way. And that's why like, I like to give it just one example as an input and ask it to replicate it because I found it to be better”

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